Facebook is to begin showing UK users more background information about the publishers and news articles they see in the social network’s News Feed.

The social network also plans to remove its trending news section next week after four years to make way for “future news experiences”, including a new section to highlight local news and breaking news flags.

The new test feature (pictured), first deployed in the US last year, places extra context around articles and publishers which appear on the site, including links to Wikipedia pages about them and related articles on the same subject.